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Breach occurred 2015-08-07Verifiedstorybird.com
What happened
In August 2015, the storytelling service StoryBird suffered a data breach exposing 4 million records with 1 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The StoryBird data breach occurred on August 7, 2015. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on February 2, 2021.
1,047,200 accounts were affected by the StoryBird data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The StoryBird breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the StoryBird breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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